Xbox Series S/X: Thread 05

[Atticus]

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The not so Great Circle

Dec 4 must be a bad date

[fishbowlhead]

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The not so Great Circle

What an absolute f*****g waste of plastic, at least put a version of the game on the disk that runs for people with no/bad internet. I'm sure they can claim carbon offset % by printing some leaflets for game boxes about their carbon offset though i guess, on the disk that doesn't work.

[wakka]

To be fair I buy games on disc not because I care about the software being on the disc* but because the savings through trading in at CeX are pretty considerable. For those purposes it's absolutely fine for it to just be a physical license key with very little actually stored on it.

I got Astrobot for £50 and got something like £42 when I traded it back.

Def beats paying £59.99 for a download that I can't do anything with when I'm done with the game.

I'll probs do the same with this Indiana Jones game when it comes to PS5 early next year, and it won't matter to me that the software isn't on the plastic.

->Open Spoiler<-

*In fact, when I stuck the Black Ops 6 disc in my PS5 for the first time recently, I discovered that the entire game had already been installed, unbeknownst to me, as an update to my Modern Warfare II install! Which was sneaky but, um, actually very convenient.

[Yakumo]

Oh what the ****! Why do they do this? Pressing a disc full of data or not cost the same and pressing an additional disc cost pennies.
I've had it with Xbox now. Love the brand and console but this bull-**** is annoying.
Are Nintendo still doing this crap with their switch carts? Has Sony ever done it with PS5 releases? Not that I want a PS5, bloody ugly looking console and still massive.

[fishbowlhead]

Oh what the ****! Why do they do this? Pressing a disc full of data or not cost the same and pressing an additional disc cost pennies.
I've had it with Xbox now. Love the brand and console but this bull-**** is annoying.
Are Nintendo still doing this crap with their switch carts? Has Sony ever done it with PS5 releases? Not that I want a PS5, bloody ugly looking console and still massive.

Its time the games industry was nailed to the wall for this across the board, not only are they selling a physical product that's not fit for purpose, its also an environmental disaster.

How many copies of COD are sold each year that don't work whatsoever, literally all of them, even the campaign needs massive downloads.

[Yakumo]

It's bull**** for sure. When Steam became a thing and PC gamers were like "oh, this is great because our games can be patched.". I saw the writing on the wall. Developers releasing unfinished crap. Making the customer do the beta testing. Then came the discs with no bloody game on them. The whole digital age has ruined everything for those who care about stuff longer than a few months.

[Deuteros]

Oh what the ****! Why do they do this? Pressing a disc full of data or not cost the same and pressing an additional disc cost pennies.
I've had it with Xbox now. Love the brand and console but this bull-**** is annoying.
Are Nintendo still doing this crap with their switch carts? Has Sony ever done it with PS5 releases? Not that I want a PS5, bloody ugly looking console and still massive.

It's pretty much a standard practice across all platforms, I'm afraid.

[Neon Ignition]

With the scale of patching that goes on the data on the physical copy on any platform is arguably fairly pointless at this point. Companies would be petrified if they wear required to deliver fully finished articles on Day 1

[Yakumo]

It's pretty much a standard practice across all platforms, I'm afraid.

It's a dark time onwards for physical media lovers😭

[Yakumo]

That's the problem though, I they're not patching fixes, they're not even adding the full game.
For example, Alan Wake 2 complete edition recently git released. PS5, full game on disc. SERIES X half a game plus a massive 30GB download. That's not acceptable.

[importaku]

Oh what the ****! Why do they do this? Pressing a disc full of data or not cost the same and pressing an additional disc cost pennies.
I've had it with Xbox now. Love the brand and console but this bull-**** is annoying.
Are Nintendo still doing this crap with their switch carts? Has Sony ever done it with PS5 releases? Not that I want a PS5, bloody ugly looking console and still massive.

Nintendo have never done this with switch carts, there is not a single nintendo release that requires a mandatory download to make the game work because it's missing half the game. The only ones actually guilty of this are certain 3rd party switch games because they were too cheap to use a higer capacity cart and there's literally only a handful of those out of thousands of releases and even those they had to clearly warn you on the box that it's not the full game. Bioshock collection was one of those there's also dumb cloud games that will be pointless when server shuts off. Switch is literally the only one out of the 3 that when you get the cart you are guaranteed at least a working copy on the cart without needing to connect online, hell it's the only place where you can even find certain indies with a physical version.

[fishbowlhead]

Nintendo have never done this with switch carts, there is not a single nintendo release that requires a mandatory download to make the game work because it's missing half the game. The only ones actually guilty of this are certain 3rd party switch games because they were too cheap to use a higer capacity cart and there's literally only a handful of those out of thousands of releases and even those they had to clearly warn you on the box that it's not the full game. Bioshock collection was one of those there's also dumb cloud games that will be pointless when server shuts off. Switch is literally the only one out of the 3 that when you get the cart you are guaranteed at least a working copy on the cart without needing to connect online, hell it's the only place where you can even find certain indies with a physical version.

Barring online only multiplayer games & GT7, all of Sony 1st party work off the disk without internet.

[importaku]

I only go as far as PS4 so not any real knowledge of what goes on with ps5 software, good to hear most games are at least on the disk. Nothing more infuriating than a 50gig day 1 patch that essentially finishes off the game from its buggy rushed release but passed off as a simple bug fix.

miss the days when devs actually tried to super polish a game before release because they only had one chance. Now with online it’s wild the crap that gets passed off as a complete game when some are basically early access posing as a finished game.

[wakka]

Yeah it's kind of interesting how Miyamoto's famous quote that 'a delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever' is no longer true. Like how Cyberpunk was eventually finished roughly two years after its release. It was literally released in early access like you say, but without actually telling anyone that. Which is dumb.

[Neon Ignition]

Was always interested in Indy bit surprised as to how strong the reviews are coming in for Great Circle